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Sleuth olarak Elizabeth I'in yer aldığı tarihsel kurgu / gizem. İlginç tarihsel bilgiler, ancak tüm karakterlerin Elizabeth ile kiminle ilişkide olduğunu anlamak için zaman dilimini bilmeniz gerekir.

I really liked this. So dynamic, so different. I never felt that it was too heavy-handed even with all of the, "if we don't do something, the world will end!" stuff. I loved the main characters a lot. Especially Dr. Manhattan and Rorschach. Especially them. The scrapbook and novel excerpts were pretty boring. The "tangential pirate" stuff (as one reviewer put it) was incredibly gruesome but I did appreciate its parallelism to the plot. The book, as a whole--and no pun intended, was extremely graphic. Blood everywhere, gruesome murders, etc. The power of comic-style drawing surprised me. I was really grossed out but found it intriguing that a comic had the power to make me so affected by bloodshed. But I was really disappointed in the ending. Not with the amount of people that were affected or the horror or the message, but simply with who carried out the "crime." (I'm being vague here to eliminate spoilers). Basically, it seemed that insignificant characters ended up at the end carrying a lot of the weight of the plot's resolution. But not in a cool, unexpected way. In a disappointing way. In a "where the hell did that person come from?" way. I started to care a lot about the main characters, and then at the end I was wondering why. I thought they had everything to do with saving the world. Turns out they just ... showed up places.

this is the story of Atlas Powder in Senter, Michigan. from the inside: "The heretofore untold story of this plant and its people is an unknown hidden treasure in the mining era history of Michigan's copper country. This complex sprawled over 1815 acres of wooded glen with almost two-hundred special purpose structures and eleven miles of internal narrow gauge tramway. In its fifty year history over three hundred people were employed in this seldom discussed, little known complex. The manufacturing complex was self-contained with several distinctly specialized manufacturing operations, and for safety reasons many were separated by distances of several hundred feet and earthen bermed to a height of almost two stories. Closed now for almost fifty years, Father Time is obscuring the structures and the remaining workers from view, which is the reason for this record." this is a fascinating read about a dynamite plant, how it came to be, how the manufacturing process worked. interesting is the secrecy of the plant--this place according to old purchasing records--produced 100,000 pounds of dynamite every month in 1900 to the Quincy and Calumet & Hecla mining companies. a part of the Copper Country, an area that is now one of the newest national parks---the keweenaw national historical park--though i don't believe this particular area of the county (houghton) is included within the boundaries of the park. contrary to the ever-popular bashing of american business, that oh-so-delightful trend, this brief history tells of another way of business that is probably much more common than the myth american-haters are propounding today. the safety record the plant speaks to that matter. what would happen today? we've come so far, can i hear a hallelujah?

Each two-page spread has a couplet about a jungle animal and its tail. By moving a dial the reader makes the tail appear. Unfortunately, one of the dials was broken before my daughter even opened the book. At least one misused apostrophe appears. The bright illustrations are really the only thing appealing about this book. I received this book for Piper as part of the Mymcbooks Birthday program.

An enjoyable sexy romance. It is such a break to read this genre once in a while and just relax and not be engaged in deep thoughts about the story. The plot may be easy and full of romantic love scenes but it is just as rich in life lessons as any other bestseller or classic. This is just the first in the series of this very romantic stories about switched identities, and I'm really tempted to buy the sequel.